Oil can



'L'. H. NOBLE, DECD.

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OIL CAN.

APPLICATION IILED Nov. I7, I9I9.

Patente July E8, 1922.

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i ritt it@ ELDRIDGE H'. NOBLE, 0F WAUKEGAN, ILLINOS; VILLIM J. SMTH ABMINlISTR-LTR 0F SAID ELDRIDGE H. NOBLE, BECEASED.

OIL CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July `Application filed November 17, 1919. Serial No. 338,626.

To aZZ zo/wm t may concern:

Be it lrnown that .lB Emerson lil. Nonne, citizen of the United States7 residing at Waukegan, in the county of `iralre and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Uil Cans5 of which the following is a full. clear, concise, and exact description.

My invention relates to spouted cans commonly used for squirting or otherwise discharging oil or other material.

My invention has for its main object the construction of such a can which. with one operation of the linger. will unstop the spout thereof, throw the oil, and restore the stop to the spout. A. stopper for the spoutis preferably of such a construction as to normally seal the outlet end thereof to make `it impossible for the spout to be clogged by dirt or other foreign substance.

The invention will be fully explained by the following description of the preferred embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional View of the can of my invention with the spout thereof corked; Fig. 2 illustrates the can uncorlred to permit of the passage of oil therefrom; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the different figures.

The body 1 of the oil can is of any suitable shell-like form. It is provided at its lupper end with a neck 2 formed to have separable connection with the base of the skirt of a cap 3. The top wall 4 of the cap is in assembly with the base portion of the discharge spout 5 through which the oil is to be ejected. The top cap portion 4i constitutes the bottom of a cup G which surrounds the base of the spout 5 to retain any oil that may flow down along the spout thereby preventing the oil from reaching the base portion of the can and thence flowing to the tableA or other support upon which the can may be rested. An elongated stopper 7 is reciprocable within the bore of the spout. The stopper is wire-like in formation, being tapered at its outer end to seal the discharge end of the spout when the can is not in use. The stopper is provided with an enlargement 8 to engage the shoulder 9 formed within the spout, when the can is not in use, whereby a supplemental sealing of the spout is atfm'ded. lhere is cl .ance between the bore of the spout and the stopper therein except at the outer end of the spout and stopper and between the stopper enlargement 8 and the spout. when the can is not in use. so that when the spout is to be unstopped the stopper' may readily be drawn inwardly without being materiall'liv opposed in its movement by any friction be tween the spout and stopper. ,fr plunger 10, preferably parallel with the spout, is preferably employed to operate the stopper T. This plunger extends from the exterior of the can through the stutling box 11 and the cap top 1 to the interior of the can where it is securely connected with a. spring barrel 12 which is also a pump barrel. A pump piston 13 is disposed wit-hin the pump barrel, being preferably made stationary with respect to the can by means of a link 14 that connects it with the spout 5. This pump piston also constitutes the lower or inner abutment for a coiled spring 15 having as it upper or outer abutment the outer end wall of the pump barrel 12. The spring 15 normally holds the pump barrel in its outermost position in which the stopper enlargement 8 and the tapered end of the stopper 7 serve doubly to seal the spout to prevent oil from passing from the can in any position in which the can may be placed.

The pump barrel is provided with openings or ports 16 at its inner end which eX- tend koutwardly above the pump piston when the pump barrel is in its outermost po sition whereby oil from the can may readily flow into the pump barrel to be forcibly ejected therefrom when the plunger 10 is depressed to move the outer end of the pump barrel toward the piston and at the same time unstop the spout. The finger which is employed to. depress the plunger is removed as soon as the pump barrel is sufciently moved inwardly to squirt the desired amount of oil from the spout7 the spring- 15 thereupon restoring the pump barrel to its outer position. By this construction the forcible application of the inger to the plunger will unstop the spout and effect the forced passage of oil therethrough, the release of the linger from the plunger permitting the spring 15 to restore the pump barrel to its idle position and apply the stopper to the 'froid the clogging' of the spout. orojects beyond the spout to he hile l here herein shown Iand particularly described the preferred embodiment of' i y invention l do not Wish to he limited to the precise details of construction shown es changes may readily he made Without den Yfrom the spirit of my inventionQ hut he thus described my invention l claim :Y: new and desire to secure hy Letters Pah ent the followingf l. Ji. con having u discharge spout; o. zppor wiihin the here of the spout; mecha- 'Y eC ihle for operation upon Jdie eX- tne can sind in operating connecfo'i with the stopper upon the interior of the en; :i pump borrel to which the stopper is :utuched and moving` Vith the stopper, the f oreseid mechanism beingin actuating reartion to this pump barrel; u. piston Within the pump herrel und substantie-ll;7 fixed With respect to the con; end 2L spring between the piston und the outer end of the pump borrel norm-Lilly to place the pump borrel in its outer position oud to apply the stopper 'ro the ,simutf -there vbeing communication be tween. the pump barrel and the can interior `when the pump barrel is in its outer position.

2. cen having a discharge spout; a stopper Within the bore of the spout; e pump barrel to Which the stopper is attached and owning with Jehe stopper; o piston within the pump barrel and substantially fixed with respect to the can; a spring between the piston sind the outer end of the pump borrel normally to place the pump barrel in. outer position und to'apply the stopper to the spout, Jchere being communication hetveen the pump barrel and the can interior when the pump borrel is in its outer position; sind o, plunger extending` through the to the exterior thereof and connected with the pump barrel to move it inwardly :sind thereby unstop the spout and effect the forcible passage therethrough of material from the can.

ln witness whereof l'. hereunto subscribe my name this eleventh dey of November, D. 19],7.

ELDRlDGE H. NOBLE. 

